english vocab Flashcards
(40 cards)
Commiserated
V. Express or feel sympathy or pity; sympathize.
Ostentatiously
N. Showy display of wealthy and luxury; designed to impress.
Ferocious
Adj. Savagely fierce, cruel, or violent.
Scrib/ Script
Write
Liter
Letter
Litig
Dispute, quarrel, sue
Leg/ Lig/ Lect
Choose, gather
Leg/ Lect
Read
Leg
Law
Lig
Bind
String/ Strict
Bind
Stimul
Rouse
Pung/ Punct
Point, prick
Pugn/ Oug
Fight, fist
Futility
N. Pointlessness or uselessness.
Pretense
N. An attempt to make something that is not the case appear true.
Languished
V. (Of a person, animal, or plant); grow weak.
Seethed
V. (Of a liquid) bubble up as a result of being boiled.
Emanations
N. An abstract but perceptible thing that issues or originates from a source.
Fanatical
Adj. Filled with excessive or single-minded zeal.
Earnestness
N. Sincere and intense conviction.
Affront
N. An action or remark that causes outrage or offence.
Sacrilege
N. Violation or misuse of what is regarded as sacred.
Insensate
Adj. Lacking physical sensation.